Soak in Singapore
  • Home
  • Food
  • Culture
  • Living
  • Tour
  • Singlish
  • Useful info
    • Suggested Itineraries >
      • For Families with Kids
      • For the Adventurous
      • For the Leisurely
      • For the culture buff
      • For the Singaporean in You
      • For the Shopaholic
      • 50 things to do!
    • Public Transport >
      • MRT
      • Taking the bus
      • Taking taxis
    • Festival & Event Listing 2018
    • Useful Links
  • About

FEATURING: CHWEE KUEH

steamed rice cakes topped with preserved turnip

Know Your Noodles Part 2 - Bee Hoon aka Vermicelli

2/20/2014

0 Comments

 
Bee Hoon (vermicelli)There is the thin and the thick bee hoon. The thin version is translucent, dried and breaks easily when bought off the shelf. Before cooking it, it needs to be soaked in water. The most popular way the thin version is cooked - fried! So the steps for a simple fried bee hoon are: soak in water > fry in some garlic/onion, throw in an egg or some shredded cabbage, a dash of soya sauce for taste and colour and tadah!

You find fried bee hoon at almost any occasion either prepared at home or catered, from tea breaks at company events or seminars, to baby showers, picnics, home parties and even at funeral wakes. Whenever you see fried bee hoon catered or served at a friend's house, it is 95% likely you will see its complement - curry chicken! Fried bee hoon is a common breakfast food at coffeeshops too. For dinner, you can get fried bee hoon from tze char stalls at coffeeshops. It's really everywhere!!!

Another noodle dish that uses bee hoon is Mee Siam, which is bee hoon in a light and sour gravy topped with dried beancurd, beansprouts and a hard boiled egg. Other than getting Mee Siam at Malay stalls, you can get it throughout the day too at Toast Box outlets. Bee hoon is light and easy on the stomach so it’s also common for locals here to eat bee hoon soup (eg. fishball soup with bee hoon, sliced fish soup with bee hoon) when they are unwell.

The thick bee hoon (white in colour) is selected more as the noodle option for sliced fish soup. It's also a noodle option for several other foods - like yong tau foo and fishball noodles. Thick bee hoon is also the better half of Hokkien Mee. Some hawkers fry Hokkien Mee with the thin bee hoon too. Both versions are also popular for prawn noodles, where you can choose to mix bee hoon with yellow noodles.

Click here to know what yellow noodles are!
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012

© COPYRIGHT 2017. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • Food
  • Culture
  • Living
  • Tour
  • Singlish
  • Useful info
    • Suggested Itineraries >
      • For Families with Kids
      • For the Adventurous
      • For the Leisurely
      • For the culture buff
      • For the Singaporean in You
      • For the Shopaholic
      • 50 things to do!
    • Public Transport >
      • MRT
      • Taking the bus
      • Taking taxis
    • Festival & Event Listing 2018
    • Useful Links
  • About